Historiography: ancient, medieval & modern

In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women's history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography provides key insights.

Introduction -- 1. The emergence of Greek historiography -- 3. The era of the 'polis' and its historians -- 3. Reaching the limits of Greek historiography -- 4. Early Roman historiography : myths, Greeks, and the Republic -- 5. Historians and the Republic's crisis -- 6. Perceptions of the past in Augustan and Imperial Rome -- 7. The Christian historiographical revolution -- 8. The historiographical mastery of new peoples, states, and dynasties -- 9. Historians and the ideal of the Christian commonwealth -- 10. Historiography's adjustment to accelerating change -- 11. Two turning points : the Renaissance and the Reformation -- 12. The continuing modification of traditional historiography -- 13. The eighteenth-century quest for a new historiography -- 14. Three national responses -- 15/16. Historians as interpreters of progress and nation -- 17. A first prefatory note to modern historiography (1860-1914) -- 18. History and the quest for a uniform science -- 19. The discovery of economic dynamics -- 20. Historians discover the masses -- 21. The problem of world history -- 22. A second prefatory note to modern historiography (since 1914) -- 23. Questions of historical truth : the theo…